republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-2377.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Residential facilities."
description: "Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensing and regulation by the State Department of Social Services of community care facilities. Under existing law, community care facilities include, among others, various types of adult residential facilities. Existing law also provides for the regulation by the department of residential care facilities for persons with chronic life-threatening illness."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 2377"
citation: "California AB 2377 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Residential facilities."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chiu"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 30
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2020-02-18"
last_action: "2020-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3ca50fb-b7bd-4076-8bed-7b57a6e29b5f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2377"
source_hash: "84190a63fb987c642fef8017d4fc4e382124800e565f8d66c1d9a6dc7dd8b406"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 2377 (20192020) — Residential facilities.

Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensing and regulation by the State Department of Social Services of community care facilities. Under existing law, community care facilities include, among others, various types of adult residential facilities. Existing law also provides for the regulation by the department of residential care facilities for persons with chronic life-threatening illness.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/18/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2377&version=20190AB237799INT)
2. **03/12/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2377&version=20190AB237798AMD)
3. **05/04/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2377&version=20190AB237797AMD)
4. **07/07/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2377&version=20190AB237796AMD)
5. **08/20/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2377&version=20190AB237795AMD)
6. **08/25/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2377&version=20190AB237794AMD)
7. **09/25/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2377&version=20190AB237792CHP)
8. **AB2377** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2377)
9. **09/01/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2377&version=20190AB237793ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2377 Chiu et al. By Skinner — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 2377 Chiu Assembly Third Reading — **64–6** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2377 Chiu Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **72–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chiu — primary (person)
- Skinner — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2020-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2020-03-12** Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-03-16** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2020-04-06** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-05-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-05-05** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-06-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 6. Page 4764.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-07-01** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-07-09** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-08-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-17** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 20). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-08-20** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-25** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2020-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5386.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2020-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 146, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d3ca50fb-b7bd-4076-8bed-7b57a6e29b5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).